Most people keep forgetting they had no time outs left.
Which, by the way, is horrible clock management. They had to use their last time out because they would have been called for delay of game. As a Pats fan, I could not believe they were letting so much time run off the clock.
Seattle had a time out when he threw the pick.
I was surprised New England wasn’t taking time outs to have more time to kick a FG to force overtime if Seattle scored.
They had one time out. A lot of people don’t realize that they couldn’t use that without invoking a penalty since they had just called a timeout.
There was a little bit of tactics going on even with the timeouts. From comments made, the Seahawks expected Belichick to call a timeout when there was about a minute left, to preserve time...but he didn’t - because he didn’t want to give Carroll more time to plan, and so the Seahawks coaching staff got a bit discombobulated.